Behind the majestic freedom and equality

Dessie 2022-01-07 15:52:51

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

The movie's release date is exactly 6 months after the legalization of interracial marriage. Before June 1967, interracial marriage was illegal in most states in the United States. At that time, there were still 17 states in the country, including most southern states, as well as those in Texas and Florida. The most populous states stipulate this. It is the so-called Anti-Interracial Marriage Law and other discriminatory legal systems that make racism institutionalized.
Of course, compared to equality in economic, social, and political rights, gender relations are the most taboo and sensitive part of racial issues, just like the line in the film: "Civil rights is one aspect, marriage is the other." The subtext of this sentence That is, whites can grant blacks freedom and equality to a certain extent, but the blood of blacks is inferior, and the combination of whites and blacks is shameful. This white supremacy theory affects everyone subtly. In the film, even the self-proclaimed liberals can hardly eliminate the prejudice against blacks in their bones.
"Guess who's coming to dinner now?" ("Guess who's coming to dinner now?") The black maid replied: "Could it be Martin Luther King?" This mockery really makes I laughed blankly. In the indoctrinated concept of a black maid, oneself is not as beautiful as white, not as important as white, and not as capable as white. Everything is taken for granted. This is really the most shocking portrait of internalized racism.

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  • Jamil 2022-03-22 09:02:17

    It is particularly interesting to compare it with "Get Out" fifty years later. Although it deals with the progressive issues of the year, the conservative tendency is still obvious.

  • Sammy 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    Hepburn's clothes are so good

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  • John: After all, a lot of people are going to think we are a shocking pair.

  • John: You listen to me. You say you don't want to tell me how to live my life. So what do you think you've been doing? You tell me what rights I've got or haven't got, and what I owe to you for what you've done for me. Let me tell you something. I owe you nothing! If you carried that bag a million miles, you did what you're supposed to do! Because you brought me into this world. And from that day you owed me everything you could ever do for me like I will owe my son if I ever have another. But you don't own me! You can't tell me when or where I'm out of line, or try to get me to live my life according to your rules. You don't even know what I am, Dad, you don't know who I am. You don't know how I feel, what I think. And if I tried to explain it the rest of your life you will never understand. You are 30 years older than I am. You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs! You understand, you've got to get off my back! Dad... Dad, you're my father. I'm your son. I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man. Now, I've got a decision to make, hm? And I've got to make it alone, and I gotta make it in a hurry. So would you go out there and see after my mother?

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